Hi All,
This is my first post and I actually joined this site just to talk about this problem. What I want is to load dynamic movies and check for the dimensions of the video. If the video is in widescreen format, I want to move the movie into the center of the flash player.
Here’s a better example, let’s say I create a flash video player from the flvplayback component and lock the dimensions of the player so the movie has to play inside a 400x300 window. The video player toolbar (play button, volume control, etc) is about 45 pixels high, so the actual stage is 400x345.
Now when I load a movie dynamically that has an aspect ratio of 4:3 (standard ratio for video) the video gets resized and everything looks fine. However, if I load a widescreen video, the video player toolbar automatically attaches to the bottom of the video. Instead of it being centered vertically with a black border. So let’s say we have a widescreen video that is 400x200, I can’t seem to figure out how to add a black bar between the video player toolbar and the video itself.
I’ve attached to images to show what I mean. The first shows what I want it to look like, the second image shows what’s happening.
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The solution I think is to check the height of the dynamically loaded movie and then compare it to the stage height.
What I thought would work would be something like this (forgive syntax errors, just presenting the logic):
if (myflvvideo.height < (Stage.height - 45)) // 45 represents the toolbar
{
myflvvideo._y = ((Stage.height - 45) - myflvvideo.height) / 2;
}
However, the above doesn’t work right… I can’t seem to get the dimensions of a dynamically loaded video and I also can’t seem to separate the video toolbar from the video itself. Any help would be greatly appreciated… I’ve spent dozens of hours trying to figure this sucker out.
